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Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
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Raped
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Fools
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I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.
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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
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If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.
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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
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I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon
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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.
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